This article originally appeared on IndieReader.com in June 2014. Here, I’ll add a couple of contemporary photos. D-Day Memoirs Lost As the troops and equipment, the boats and barges gathered for the D-Day landings, my father was watching. He served in the Royal Air Force—on a boat. Let me explain. The RAF ran a fleet …
Born in Trieste, Italy, a graduate of the Medical School at the University of Padua, Margaret Brisco was one of the first women doctors to be in residence at Martland Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Clara Maas Hospital, where she championed women’s health issues, Dr. Brisco drew upon her …
When Nancy-Jo Taiani was in elementary school she was terrified whenever a teacher assigned an essay that might reveal any of her feelings. So, she majored in Math. Later, working in technology, she wrote for and edited an in-house newsletter while working on several stories for children—still not showing any private feelings. But, what’s more …
Arlene McCarren describes herself as a mature Italian American woman who raised five children in her early years and who spent her later years taking care of her desperately ill husband, Jim. After forty-eight years of marriage, Arlene became Jim’s primary caregiver in the final year of his life. Holding many and varied jobs before …
George Hickman was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He is a self-proclaimed graduate of the school of “Hard Knocks,” a parent who believes people need to express their love for their children at every opportunity because “we never know what tomorrow might bring.” George’s book: Half A Heart